Bagshot Row

Bagshot Row
Row of hobbit-holes
General Information
Other names	New Row
Location	Hobbiton Hill
Type	Row of hobbit-holes
Regions	The Shire
People and History
Inhabitants	Hobbits
Events	Saruman's Ruffian occupation

Bagshot Row was the row of hobbit-holes that were delved into Hobbiton Hill beneath Bag End. The Gamgee Family lived at Number 3, Bagshot Row. Their neighbour was Daddy Twofoot, but it is not known whether he lived at Number 2 or Number 4.

In the War of the Ring, Bagshot Row had become a yawning sand and gravel pit. After the Battle of Bywater the destruction was replaced by a new row called, simply, New Row (in the town of Bywater it became a joke to refer to it as Sharkey's End). After the restoration the Gaffer Gamgee returned to Number 3, and his son Sam lived with him until Sam married Rose Cotton and relocated to Bag End.

Etymology

It was so named because the earth removed in excavating Bag End was shot over the edge of the sudden fall in the hillside onto the ground. It was this part which later became the gardens and earthwalls of the other dwellings.

Portrayal in Adaptations

2002: Vivendi's The Fellowship of the Ring:

Bagshot Row is much longer than described in the book; numbers run up to ten.

• 1 Bagshot Row: Bag End
• 2 Bagshot Row: Daddy Twofoot
• 3 Bagshot Row: The Gamgees
• 4 Bagshot Row: Milo Burrows
• 5 Bagshot Row: The Proudfeet
• 6 Bagshot Row: Halfast Hornblower
• 8 Bagshot Row: Hugo Bracegirdle
• 10 Bagshot Row: Fredregar (sic) Bolger

Numbers 7 and 9, inhabited by Folco Boffin and Robin Smallburrow, are inexplicably located on the "Water Road" and the "Hill Road".

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:

In an unexplained deviation from the book, Sam and Rosie still live at Number 3. Prior to that, Rosie had been living at Number 10